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7 Card Stud Basic Strategy for UltimateBet:
Pay attention to the first three cards - In any 7 card stud poker game there are essential things that you must focus on when the starting hand (the first three cards dealt to each player) is dealt out. Don't lose your focus on these things at any time, it could cost you the hand. If you weren't paying close enough attention to these things or were distracted during the deal, fold your hand immediately. Your opponents will pay attention to these things and you don't want them to take advantage of your lapse of concentration. You will probably not remember the cards specifically on later streets but you will generally have a hunch if an opponent's hand is real or if it is a bluff.
When the starting hand is dealt and all the door cards are showing you will need to do this as quickly as possible before players start folding their hands:
- Look at all of the door cards showing on the table.
- Count how many of cards of each suit are out.
- Look at what card numbers are out.
- Remember which player was the first to raise the bring-in bet (if any) and how far away they are in position from the bring-in.
- Remember if the player with the bring-in bet calls any raises.
- Let the players know that you are not afraid to raise or re-raise.
- Let the players know that you can lay down a very good hand, even after re-raising.
Having general knowledge about the other cards on the table will determine whether it best you call, raise, or fold. If your cards combination are live, you will have a higher rate of success in achieving a winning end result.
Again, if cards have been folded around the table, and you have missed the opportunity to view those door cards, think about folding unless you have an extremely strong hand and no one has raised the bring-in.
You are not only counting the cards for your own hand, you are counting cards and suits to determine what is live for other players' hands for later rounds as well. If your cards are not live - fold.
If you find on fifth street that you are chasing to make a hand against an aggressive better, it is probably best to fold. Naturally you may not know this until the show-down and you've lost. Use the experience of knowing when you are chasing cards for your hand against a player betting aggressively, that they probably already have a made hand. Then fold earlier next time. In the late streets they are highly unlikely to fold what they've invested into the pot when they've been betting aggressively.
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Bluffing
Bluffing is a tool to be used against good players only. Since bad players will
tend to call anything, bluffing is generally worthless. However, you can
sometimes convince a good player to lay down a hand he shouldn’t. It’s generally best to bluff by representing a hand. Sometimes blindly betting will get a player to fold if he has nothing, but to make him fold something requires that he really thinks he’s beaten. This is easier to do at no limit than limit. At no limit, you can just put in a pot sized bet if say a flush draw hit, but a good player is likely to call just one more big bet in a limit game.
In a limit game, it is generally best to bluff early (at the flop), as once a good player starts calling big bets, he will be reluctant to lay down his hand unless he was drawing and missed. For example, let’s say I am in late position or the sb and have JQs. I raise so maybe I will steal the blinds, but the big blind calls. Flop comes K46 rainbow. I bet at the pot, he may fold. I have nothing but there’s a good chance he has nothing
Again, when you bluff, you need to bet like you would bet if you had the hand. Simply betting hard when there is something scary is not always wise, as good players might get a little suspicious. If you bet hard when you have the nuts, then it’s fine to bluff hard when the nut hand comes on the board. However, if you tend to slowplay when you have the nut hand, they might realize you are bluffing.
Slow-playing
This is the opposite of bluffing. Slow-playing is deceiving your opponent into thinking you have a worse hand than you actually do. Slow-playing is effective against both good and bad opponents (bad opponents just bet their hand, so if they have something, they will pay you off no matter what).
You do not want to slowplay when there is a draw on the board that can beat you; you want to slow-play when someone has a hand that has little chance of improving to beat yours. For example, suppose A95 is on the board. You have 99 and you are certain your opponent has an ace. It is probably best to wait until the turn to bet hard, so you can suck him in for at least one extra big bet.
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The advantage of playing online is that if you are quick you can write down what cards other players have before they fold, so helping you analyse what possible hands are still available. But you must be quick, since slow play will empty your table of players.
This is a game of patience, so be prepared to wait until you get good hands before betting heavy.
There are five rounds of betting in 7 Card Stud game as opposed to four in Texas Hold'em and Omaha, and the level of play can hit the higher limit quicker.
There are 8 players in 7 Card Stud tables. In the unlikely event that all 8 players are still in the hand at the river, or 7 or more players have played enough streets, then there would not be enough cards left in a standard 52 card deck for each player to receive a river card. In this situation, the river card is dealt face up in the middle of the table and is used as a community card.
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